Amanda Shires "Just Be Simple" (Jason Molina, Songs: Ohia) | Live at Chicago Music Exchange
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- Amanda Shires "Just Be Simple" (Jason Molina, Songs: Ohia) - Live at Chicago Music Exchange: goo.gl/hFDp1i
“Just Be Simple” is a track from Songs: Ohia’s 2003 masterpiece, Magnolia Electric Company, recorded with Steve Albini at Electrical Audio right here in Chicago Illinois. Written by the late Jason Molina, the song is as subtle as it is affecting and complex, a hallmark of his work. It features a narrator thinking about the way back, wondering if, after a while, will it just disappear, and would it even matter if it does?
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We’ve all seen the movies. The characters stand abreast, facing down an unending road. They turn to one another and exchange a meaningful look. One laughs and soon they all share a hard-earned laugh as music fades in and they walk off into the sunset, the life they knew coming to an end as the dialogue becomes almost inaudible and the sun’s light wanes, giving way to darkness and a new, uncertain beginning.
Amanda Shires’ sunset is different, and uncertainty has no place in it.
She recently joined us in our Lincoln Ave. studio to show us why her new album, To The Sunset, is not an ending or a beginning, but rather the next phase of a career in flux and a decisive step forward toward a bright and certain horizon.
Shires’ roots in country music and Americana run very deep. She picked up her first fiddle in a pawn shop in Texas at age 10. By 15 she was playing with the Texas Playboys, and later John Prine, Shovels & Rope, Justin Townes Earle, Billy Joe Shaver, and husband Jason Isbell.
To The Sunset shows an emboldened Shires looking to step out from behind her country roots and define her own sound, no longer strictly country, and ditch her image as a side-woman. It’s a gamble so successful that she ultimately sheds it or, perhaps more accurately, shreds it altogether.
The album begins in reverse, opening with “Parking Lot Pirouette.” Distorted bleeps and blips swell and pan. Then it hits. The bass is heavy. The drums are dry. There’s synth. The vibe is more barroom than barn dance and remains so throughout the record. Shires’ Dolly Parton-esque delivery is dipped in whiskey, doubled, delayed, overdriven and wreathed in reverb. Electric piano is very up in the mix and Shires has producer Dave Cobb make her violin “sound like it's in an aquarium, but more bright.”
The effect is emotional. The sound is swirling and swings from dark to light and back again, a wholly electrified thing that is unlike her previous work and closely akin to the alt-country of her husband’s 400 Unit and cult favorites Songs: Ohia, a similarity Shires makes all the more poignant by including one of their songs in her session with us.
“Just Be Simple” is a track from Songs: Ohia’s 2003 masterpiece, Magnolia Electric Company, recorded with Steve Albini at Electrical Audio right here in Chicago Illinois. Written by the late Jason Molina, the song is as subtle as it is affecting and complex, a hallmark of his work. It features a narrator thinking about the way back, wondering if, after a while, will it just disappear, and would it even matter if it does?
See the full 6 song session: goo.gl/hFDp1i
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There is a soft place in my heart for everyone that covers a Jason Molina song. Great Performance. RIP Jason.
100%. I had a chance to see him play back in 2005 and it was incredible. Nobody sounded like Jason Molina.
Anyone who covers a Jason Molina song is ok in my book.
I love, I don’t know you. I never met Jason Molina. Thank you. I’ve known Songs Ohia, and from a girl from the backwoods of Mississippi, thank you
I can't express the impact Jason Molina has had on my life. This breaks my heart
There's no casual way to experience his music. I don't know if it helps me out my holes I've dug or digs them deeper. But, I won't stop listening
wasnt planning on crying tonight, but here we are. Miss you Jason
I’m a huge Jason moline fan, this is one if the most beautifully written songs and certainly thee most underrated
For sure, and this is a very good cover version🙏👏
Thank you Amanda
Big fan of yours
Beautiful ❤
One of the better Molina covers I've heard.
I just loved him so much. And I so greatly appreciate all those who love him and honor his songs.
Ten Years gone on the 16th.
Still hurts
Wow!!! No words.....
Amazing song from an amazing songwriter. I still miss Jason. Thank you for making it your own. I really enjoyed this version.
Lord help me. Stop breaking my heart.
What an awesome take on this heartbreaker. Amanda always makes you believe every song she sings.
And everything you hated me for, honey there was so much more... I just didn't get busted. Etched on my headstone
This is truly beautiful now. Molina is resting in peace now. You have made the song with your own flavor better I swear it and he would have to love it too. Wow
Great rendition. Tears immediately.
Great take on the song, it enunciates aspects of the original I hadn't noticed. RIP Molina, one of the all-time best honorary Chicagoans.
I think this is my favorite version fo the song. Always come back to this one.
Fuck..... Jason is somewhere loving this. Thank you
I am in love with this woman.....also one of my fave songwriters. Big respect Amanda 🤠✌
She's so beautiful and shy that she just melts my heart every time. A talented musician and songwriter who pours a lot of soul into this cover.
Wow that just gets better every time I hear it!
I've never heard of Jason Molina, but enjoyed the song thanks to Amanda's singing and impressive violin...❤
I love Amanda's voice. It's so different in a great way.
Jason was my spirit animal. Rust belt boys. The dawn is trying to get a hold of me still
Thanks for never forgot Jason and his works
A keeper. Beautiful cover of a stunningly beautiful song.
If this doesn't bring you to tears.............
Yeah I hope to see more Jason covers.
I normally don't like coverversions. But I found this one, searching for Jason Molina.
Woooow, I'm deeply touched. What a voice!!!! In every word and tone I feel that she loves this Song. Thanks for this wonderful homage to one of the greatest songwriters of the world.
Goddamnit Jason I miss you man
Dear Lord, thank you Amanda. Thank you, Jason. ♥
A fine interpretation
Still my favourite song, thank you Jason.
Beautiful rendition, Amanda.
BRILLIANT.
Very nicely done.
Thanks for letting me win. 😢
Beautiful.
Thank you Jason.. godspeed
I'm impressed , much thanks
Quite lovely.
Missing him
Love this thank you.
Quite fantastic thank you. 👏🏼
not bawling right now nope
Love this
Thanks for sing this fucking amazing song!, great job!
There is no word to describe the cry of anguish at 2:50.
When we are victims of ourselves.
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Hermoso
Jason molina rip
Девушка! У вас волшебный голос!
Fantastic. No notes.
She looks like the blonde singer from the TV show Nashville.
love the original. this, not so much.
She has a great voice and band but I saw the avert bros cover this too...and I have to say itz one of my least favorite molina songs and not really his style. I think they are only picking it cuz its structure Nd lyrics r more Accessible and commercially safe so they get to both do a tribute to molina but also not alienate their audience like most of his music would
I disagree! Depression and loneliness are never commercially safe. Yeah, the structure might be more "mainstream," but Molina tried many new things, and Magnolia Electric Company was such a turn that he renamed his act. I'd say the album is his defining moment, and Just Be Simple is probably the 2nd best song on the album. That being said, it was a good cover; sucks that they couldn't have a real piano for it.
I also think the theme of the song is something that many of us feel from personal experience. I have always felt this was a plea to himself as much as it was to anyone else. And it’s the same plea I make to myself.